On this silent morning
I am remembering another silent morning
when
I called out to
GOD and asked HIM~
"WHERE ARE YOU?",
as I truly BELIEVED that HE had left me,
because everything around me appeared to be falling apart.
I was "doing" everything that HE had ASKED me
to do
as
I was BELIEVING IN HIS WORD
&
I was ABIDING in HIS SON
&
I was DEPENDING on THE HOLY SPIRIT
&
I was SURRENDERING my ALL to HIM.
Yet things around me where FALLING APART.
BUT then GOD drew me in closer
and reminded me that
HIS WAYS are not my WAYS.
HE was making a WAY where I couldn't see any WAY.
HE was doing way more than this little mind of mine could ever comprehend.
And I KNOW GOD must have been smiling
when I questioned HIS whereabouts,
because HE loves when HIS kids ASK HIM anything,
as it means that
you are acknowledging HE is GOD.
Who ASKS someone a question if they don't BELIEVE HE exists,
even if the question is
"ARE YOU REAL GOD".
Oh just ASK HIM anything
as HE will SHOW up when you SHOW up
and HE will always ANSWER
even if you don't hear an
ANSWER,
because our GOD is working behind the scenes
ANSWERING our every woe.
Oh HE ANSWERED me
and has never stopped.
Just like on this silent morning
where all I hear is the
SILENCE.
And I giggle as
I
ASK HIM,
"WHERE ARE YOU GOD",
even though I KNOW HE IS WITH me,
but as I ASK
I am filled with
TEARS OF JOY
because
I just began my morning conversation
with the
ONE
who is always waiting for me
to just SHOW UP
because
HE has so much more than words for me
because
GOD isn't a three letter word
that you just read in a book.
For
GOD IS REAL,
oh every so REAL.
Look to your left.
HE IS THERE.
Look to your right.
HE IS THERE.
Look straight ahed.
HE IS THERE.
Look up.
HE IS THERE.
Look down.
HE IS THERE.
So when I think about the
times when things were
FALLING APART
and I was questioning
where GOD was, oh how I see that
my eyes were deceiving me
because
GOD was right there
in the midst of ALL the
BROKEN spaces & places
of my HEART
doing what HE does best.
LOVING me with ALL HIS HEART
as HE was taking all the
BROKEN PIECES
and creating something more
BEAUTIFUL
than I could ever fathom.
Are all the BROKEN PIECES
fixed.
Oh no, but that is the BEAUTY of GOD
as HE draws you closer & closer to HIM
in the BROKENNESS
so that you experience
so much MORE
of who HE IS,
and that trumps everything because
HIS PEACE transcends all understanding
&
HIS JOY becomes bigger that just happy
&
HIS HOPE is a PROMISE that lasts FOREVER.
Because
our GOD is an AWESOME GOD
who always has so much to say
even in the SILENCE
because
GOD IS GOD
and there is no other "god" who can take HIS place.
INVITE GOD into those
EMPTY places
HURING places
LONELY places
BROKEN places
ANXIOUS places
UNCERTAIN places
CONFUSING places
FEARFUL places
_____________ places
and
SILENT PLACES
because
ONLY GOD
can FILL those places
with
WHO you NEED in
every
SECOND,
as
HE takes you from
BROKEN INTO BEAUTIFUL*.
And that is
into the arms of
JESUS
who was
BROKEN in order
to
LOVE you & me & everyone else
back together
PIECE by PIECE
with
HIS PEACE
because you are
"BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN"
(listen to the song below)
*BROKEN INTO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE
MARCH 18, 2023
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